Steem ruined my life and I can't let it happen to you.
I first found Steem in 2016, it was a new social media site that was anonymous, private, free of advertising and would pay me to post my content on their site.
At the time I was a beautiful, well-adjusted, middle-class American living the good life. In the early days, I still had a family, nice house, cars, quality clothing, friends and a bank account.
^not me
When I landed on Steem I didn't understand much of what I read, there were posts about blockchains, Crypto-Currency, other cultures and other seemingly random topics. There was this thing called the trending page where people were making thousands of dollars on their posts!
I Knew This Would Be My Future:
It all started when I made my first post. Those people wouldn't vote for me. I posted about Steem, I posted about life, I posted about my first car, some of them got a few votes, which only gave me enough to want more.
^I really did post hot chick pics
I never got enough. I started to explore writing fiction and creating "Quality Art" using MS Paint. I posted hot chick pictures, opinions, snark, deep thoughts, some personal details, and it was never enough. I wanted and needed "All of the votes".
^ a real life example from my bad art series.
As soon as I Posted I Wanted to Post Again
In my quest to reach the trending page I left my job, neglected my family, soon the financial woes began to start... I was on a relentless hunt for votes.
I woke in the morning with one goal in mind, to get the votes. More and more votes, as soon as I got a vote, I just wanted more. I moved into comments and even tried other platforms like chainbb, zappl and busy - I never cared about those things.. I just wanted votes.
After a while, I could no longer pay my bills. The Bank took my House and the Cars
When the banks started repossessing my belongings, I barely noticed... I was busy posting. My family left, I made a post about it. I didn't talk to real life people anymore, I just couldn't relate to them. I stopped moving and started to gain weight, I rarely got out of the chair. My hair hadn't been brushed in months and there was this strange smell. My health was being compromised as well.
I kept posting... I started a twitter account to promote my Steem account (now I have three)
I opened a Bittrex Account, I bought Bitcoin, but failed to pay my other obligations. I now understood what a blockchain was and I could explain several cryptocurrency projects. I listened to "Banking on Bitcoin", while I posted. I needed those votes.
There were never enough votes....
I took a break recently to move to my new place
LEGAL NOTICE: Nearly none of this happened.
What is true is that I fell in love with Steem early on and had a lot of fun here. The Bear Market and lot of other things came around and made things not as fun.
This post required some updating and rewriting, but it is a rerun. I wanted to repost it, because it was fun and funny and reminded me of my entire Steem Journey.
I need to get back to having fun on Steem.
Let's have some fun!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatsup/don-t-sign-up-for-steemit-my-riches-to-rags-story
you are quickly becoming my hero in life!!!!
thank you for having fun with this stuff!! heaven forbid we enjoy ourselves here ;)
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Yeah, I remembered tonight that I have been taking this to seriously too. I'm going to go back to having fun.
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Lol @whatsup. The cardboard house made me laugh. 😂😂. Let's have fun
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I remember the picture you painted. It was quite nice. I think I remember the hot chicks, too.
I'm glad you are going to have more fun. Let's all play together =)
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I agree. Time to stop being sad and mad and relax. It can only help right?
Yes, I think we should play and have some fun. We are already rekt right? :)
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There is nothing in my case to be mad about. I can't speak for you.
We are already well rekt, but a few more stimulants shouldn't spoil the fun...
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Tub Cat would never give up his Tub for Steem. Humans are unwashed, silly and make poor life choices.
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True, maybe some day I'll be as rational as a TubCat.
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Tub Cat doubts that. What is your discord channel human? Tub Cat feels the need to observe human behaviour in real time.
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https://discord.gg/F59sDp
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Shit! If I had read this post before, no wonder that I would have included some link to this publication embedded in some corner of the context of my lastest scientific article about The Invisible World.
Definitely, that looks like MS Paint. A grubby MS Paint "Quality Piece Of Art"
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You made me laugh. Thank you.
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It should be fun here. Let's laugh
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Gotta admit the clickbait title got me to read it.
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Bait and Switch I say!
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😀
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That’s cardboard house is so legit 😂
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If I remember right it took me a long time to find and steal that picture on the internet.
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Really? In this bearmarket?:p
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That’s considered as a mansion in my book lol
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Damn. You had me worried for a second until I noticed the faint whiff of satire. Hah! Come join us in the city of neoxian. This is where I'm having my fun - https://discord.gg/589zEy9
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lol at Faint Whiff! :) I'll stop in.
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I still can't paint that well.
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the last image's writing - on the side of the 'house', says 'chateau Ned', apparently...for some bizarre reason..
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haha probably true. Nice work!
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😂🤣😭
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LOL. I loved this publication! I feel that many people will not only feel identified, but also have fun reading. STEEM has also changed my life for the better and I think I should do like you: talk about it. Greetings, @whatsup! ;)
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Greetings Nancy, good to see you. Yes, let's bring back some fun.
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If you gained weight that means you were not taking advantage of those actifit tokens. Tsk tsk.
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this is true, maybe I need an actifit addiction to get over my Steem addiction
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The addictions are complementary, really
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" My family left, I made a post about it"
ahahahahahahahahaha
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lol, Well, I can be a bit dramatic at times.
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I like your new place better
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I know where you can pick up one like it. You can set it up in your own neighborhood
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Lol, I loved it. I heartily recommend having fun on steem. It's magic!
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@whatsup,
You addicted! Me also!
$trdo
Cheers~
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lol
But the one on the picture is really not you right?
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lol, right
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Haha, I've got a workshop in the back yard so if any of this does happen you can rent it cheap. 🤣
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Haha... Sounds good.
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There's no running water but there's a garden tap nearby. You'll be set! 🙈
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You never know I still could end up needing it. :)
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Nah, you'll be ok I think. I'll keep it ready though, just in case.
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Nah, you'll be ok I think. I'll keep it ready though, just in case.
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(My family left, I made a post about it.) That's some funny stuff!👍
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Haha your bad art isn't that bad. I never could paint with a mouse. I can't really paint with paint, come to think of it.
"The Bear Market and lot of other things came around and made things not as fun."
Hopefully things get better sooner or later.
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It was a week long hobby. I've never been able to pay attention to it again. :) But I did make some fun posts with it. I annoyed the real artists.
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Fuck steem. New steem sucks more balls than the old one.
I so much agree with you that I didn't have to read after the Disclaimer part haha JK ofc :))))
Steem on!
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Haha, you had me on the first line!
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:p
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😂🤣😂 @whack.science
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lol
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You have received a @buildawhale manual curation vote.
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LOL you got me there.. fun fun fun hehe
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😁🤣😂 @lucylin
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The bear market isn't all that bad @whatsup 😏
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Ohh you little fker 🤪
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Hello @whatsup, very interesting your trip by steemit, the good thing is that you have survived to laugh at your misfortune, really this chain of blocks is addictive, once you inside do not stop thinking about what you want to write, you dream of building a post and suddenly you run out of electricity, a whole chaos, a real nightmare, in my country but is the power outage is the loss of the Internet, that creates me anxiety because I want to read, learn and share in this world, attend my followers give them the continuation of some incomplete post.
Steemit is an addiction to knowledge and reading.
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